Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indefatigable clubwoman, Mrs. Oscar A. Ahlgren of Whiting, Ind. belongs to so many committees, pursues so varied and vigorous a round of civic activities that, as her lawyer-husband says, "It stuns me." Last week Mrs. Ahlgren took the top honor in her field: she was elected president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (membership: nearly...
...special talent? TVmen credit Lucille with an unfailing instinct for timing. Producer-Writer Jess Oppenheimer says: "For every word you write in this business, you figure you're lucky to get back 70-80% from a performer. With Lucille, you get back 140%." Broadway's Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II, hailing Lucille's control, calls her a "broad comedienne, but one who never goes over the line." To her manager, Don Sharpe, Lucille is "close to the Chaplin school of comedy-she's got warmth and sympathy, and people believe in her, even while they...
Pulitzer prize winner Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, yesterday told delegates to a convention of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society that the immigration laws of the United States "were enacted in an atmosphere of the Ku Klux Klan...
Kazan directed both the mage and screen productions of "A Streetcar Named Desire." He was awarded an Oscar" in 1947 for his direction of Gentleman's Agreement." Other screen plays he has directed include "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "Viva Zapata...
...Joseph Kramm, for his play The Shrike. <1 Harvard Professor Oscar Handlin, for The Uprooted, a history of immigrants...